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Offline mmm45

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Re: Reason for Discharge
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 16 November 08 17:06 GMT (UK) »
Yes definately SWB card...His pension record may be on Ancestry but dont hold your breath..ive got lads ive researched ent to pension and they havent appeared!

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Wood(Liversedge)
Tallon (Whittington Lancs/Hartshead West Yorkshire)

Researching all Great War soldiers from the Spen Valley of West Yorkshire Especially lads from the Cleckheaton Company of 1/4th West Riding Regiment.

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Re: Reason for Discharge
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 16 November 08 17:23 GMT (UK) »
Cheers both !

For future Refn then, with a stamped medals box, even if written in the first space (and not overwritten with SWB) its an SWB MiC ?

Is that what the inserted 'X' means in fact ?
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Re: Reason for Discharge
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 16 November 08 19:56 GMT (UK) »
The " X" on MICs denotes the unit that is impressed on the rims of medals/Back of the Star.
Lowe(Lower Gornall-Castleford)
Blackburn (Castleford)
Sidwell(Ledsham)
Fairburn(Hartshead)
Wood(Liversedge)
Tallon (Whittington Lancs/Hartshead West Yorkshire)

Researching all Great War soldiers from the Spen Valley of West Yorkshire Especially lads from the Cleckheaton Company of 1/4th West Riding Regiment.

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Re: Reason for Discharge
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 16 November 08 19:57 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for all your help.

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